Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories by Svetlana Alexievich

Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories

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Svetlana Alexievich with Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)

320 pages first pub 1985 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional reflective sad medium-paced
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What did it mean to grow up in the Soviet Union during the Second World War? In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich started interviewing people who had experienced war as children, the generation that survived and had to live with the trauma that ...

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Moods

sad 81%
emotional 75%
dark 71%
reflective 53%
challenging 38%
informative 36%
tense 33%
hopeful 6%
inspiring 3%

Pace

medium 44%
fast 32%
slow 24%

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